There exists a nontrivial possibility that the Roaring Fork Valley is in danger of losing commercial airline service at Aspen/Pitkin County Airport because of the runway’s condition, as well as the apparent collision course between.
In an effort to beat the clock on a failing runway and soon-to-expire Congressional funding for the airport, the county endorsed shifting the runway 80 feet west instead of the taxiway 80 feet east in a major planning document.
Spring has sprung, and the exodus has begun. It feels like this is the week that locals have chosen to take off for climes further afield and shake off the residue of the winter that.
Commercial airline enplanements at the Aspen/Pitkin County Airport continue to trend upward. Bill Tomcich, an aviation consultant and head of Tomcich Travel, tracks traffic at the airport. “February was yet another record month for (the.